For the past five years Inhabitat has <a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/index.php?s=leed%20certification">written</a> about many <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/leed/">LEED buildings</a>. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification system has proven to be enormously successful at pushing commercial buildings to reduce their environmental footprint. However the New York Times featured an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/science/earth/31leed.html">important story</a> on the under-performance of some of these buildings and has just published an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20Appelbaum.html?src=me&amp;ref=opinion">opinion piece by Alec Applebaum</a> in which he suggests that governments add-long term energy management initiatives to a LEED building in order to keep the project from “<em>going gray after its grand opening</em>....<br><br><a href='http://inhabitat.com/is-leed-still-leading-the-way-for-green-building/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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LEED Certification

For the past five years Inhabitat has <a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/index.php?s=leed%20certification">written</a> about many <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/leed/">LEED buildings</a>. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification system has proven to be enormously successful at pushing commercial buildings to reduce their environmental footprint. However the New York Times featured an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/science/earth/31leed.html">important story</a> on the under-performance of some of these buildings and has just published an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20Appelbaum.html?src=me&amp;ref=opinion">opinion piece by Alec Applebaum</a> in which he suggests that governments add-long term energy management initiatives to a LEED building in order to keep the project from “<em>going gray after its grand opening</em>....<br><br><a href='http://inhabitat.com/is-leed-still-leading-the-way-for-green-building/'>READ ARTICLE</a>